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Re: 1.7-specific packages
On Mar 13 06:34, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd been under the impression that I'd need to create a separate
> mintty package for cygwin-1.7, but was glad to find that actually
> 0.3.5-1 is already there. Many packages do have 1.7-specific versions
> though, so my question is, under what sorts of circumstances does that
> become necessary?
If your package potentially uses one of the features in 1.7.
For instance:
- Does your code use sockets and is potentially IPv6 aware?
- Does your code use static filename buffers of size MAXPATHLEN,
PATH_MAX or MAX_PATH, or do you allocate filename buffers using
these defines? If so, drop all usage of MAX_PATH in favor of
PATH_MAX. Or, even better, don't expect pathnames to have a
max size at all.
- For more ideas what's new see the list of new features in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-03/msg00043.html
Corinna
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